What are the characteristics of Dai people?

1. Dai people regard peacocks and elephants as mascots, and their folk stories are rich and colorful. Dai people like to live by water, love cleanliness, often take a bath, and women like to wash their hair, so they are called "water people". In the past, Dai people generally believed in Buddhism, and primitive religion spread to the south.

2. Dai people often eat more than 30 kinds of wild flowers, such as Panzhihua, Li Tang, azalea, yellow rice, beet, banana, bitter cold vegetable, Erythrina, broom, plumeria, bitter thorn, Pentium and a kind of flower called "Mo Xie" in Dai language.

3. Wine is loved by Dai people, generally brewed by itself, with low degree and sweet taste. Tea is a local specialty, but Dai people only drink big leaf tea without spices. When drinking, stir-fry slightly on the fire until burnt, and drink slightly after brewing. The habit of chewing betel nut is also very common. Chewing betel nut should be mixed with tobacco and lime all day.

Extended data

According to their distribution areas, the Dai people in China call themselves Dai Lu, Dai Na, Dai Ya, Dai Zhan and Dai Duan. Xishuangbanna and other places call themselves "Dai Lu", Dehong and other places call themselves "Dai Na", Xinping and Yuanjiang in the middle and upper reaches of the Red River call themselves "Dai Ya", Ruili, Longchuan and Gengma border areas call themselves "Dai tension", and Mangjing and Mangna in Lancang are branches of Dai tension. Han people call Dai Lu Shui Dai, Dai Na Handai and Dai Ya Huayaodai.

As early as A.D. 1 century, there were records about Dai ancestors in China history books. The documents in Tang and Song Dynasties are called Gold Teeth, Hei Chi, Silver Teeth, Embroidered Feet, Embroidered Faces, Manman and White Clothes. It was also called "golden teeth" and "white clothes" in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. "Bai Yi" is also written as "Bai Yi", "Bai Yi" and "Bo Yi", and some of them are mistaken for "Bo Yi" and even confused with Bai people.

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